Series IV: Haiku circles and 小池晩人 Koike Banjin (小池恭 Koike Kyo) correspondence, 1943 February-1945 December

Haiku circles and 小池晩人 Koike Banjin (小池恭 Koike Kyo) correspondence series comprises of collections of haiku poems by haiku circles, “Minidoka Ginsha” “Tule Lake Ginsha” and “Rainier Ginsha,” and a collection of letters from one of the haiku editors, 小池恭 Koike Kyo. Included are manuscripts of haiku poems and monthly bulletins of haiku poems authored by the haiku circle members incarcerated in the Minidoka and Tule Lake camps during the war. Kiyoshi Uekawa wrote haiku poems under the pseudonym, "植川轉 Uyekawa Utata," and his poems were selected and listed in the bulletins published by the Minidoka Ginsha. He was also one of the editors for the Tule Lake Ginsha. There is a volume of manuscripts of haiku poems by the Tule Lake Ginsha members. Although it is numbered as "vol. 5," there are no other volumes included.

小池恭 Koike Kyo was a prominent figure in the Japanese American community as a physician and photographer as well as a poet under the pseudonym, "小池晩人 Koike Banjin." During his incarceration in the Minidoka camp, he was an editor for the monthly bulletins by the Minidoka Ginsha and mentored the members. There are also the monthly bulletins by the Rainier Ginsha, which was presumably mailed from 小池恭 Koike Kyo after he returned to Seattle, Washington. He wrote letters from the Minidoka camp where he had been incarcerated to the haiku circle members in the Tule Lake camp. The letters were collected and compiled by Kiyoshi Uyekawa.